Edwards v. Califano’s Empirical Analysis
619 F.2d 865 · 1980
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently September 2001 · most notably Bar MK Ranches v. Yuetter (1993), Green v. Shalala (1995)
24 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Udall v. Tallman · United States v. Nixon · Bowles v. Seminole Rock & Sand Co. · United States Accardi v. Shaughnessy
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“arbitrary, capricious, and an abuse of discretion”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when the facts show that a person has been absent from his residence and unheard for a period of seven years, a presumption arises that he is dead.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“an agency's interpretation ... which is not based on expertise in its particular field but is rather based on general common law principles,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.